Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J is considering moving the Hottest 100 from Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J is in serious discussions to shift the Hottest 100 away from Australia Day in response to the increasing momentum of a campaign to move it out of respect to Indigenous Australians. It is understood senior management at the ABC has been ...
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Triple J may move Hottest 100 over 'Invasion Day'NEWS.com.au
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Virgin Australia partners with Indigenous event, Parrtjima – A Festival in Light
MuMbrella
The first authentic Indigenous light festival of its kind in the world and Australia's biggest-ever light show installation, Parrtjima – A Festival in Light will light up Alice Springs and 2.5km of Central Australia's majestic MacDonnell Ranges for 10 ...

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'Malignant grief': doctor speaks about his battle against indigenous suicide
Crikey (registration)
'Malignant grief': doctor speaks about his battle against indigenous suicide. Murray Chapman works at the centre of a community whose heart and soul is being torn apart by suicide, writes deputy editor of Australian Doctor magazine Paul Smith.

Pedestrian TV
HUGE: Triple J “In Serious Talks” To Move 'Hottest 100' From Australia Day
Pedestrian TV
TV can exclusively report that the public broadcaster is in "serious talks" to shift the date from January 26 due to growing public sentiment that it's disrespectful to Indigenous Australians, who see it as a dark mark on our country's history / a day ...

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Specialists declare war on ear diseases affecting indigenous kids
The Australian
Dr Perry cited a Senate committee report released in May 2010 that concluded indigenous Australians suffered deafness and ear problems at 10 times the rate of non-indigenous Australians. “Little has been done since then,'' Dr Perry said. He believed ...

Huffington Post Australia
Noel Pearson's Uncle Leads The Fight To Recover 'Stolen Wages'
Huffington Post Australia
"The first 10 years of your life, you're working to buy yourself a home, to set your family up. That's every person's dream," Pearson told 7:30. Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson believes Aboriginal disadvantage in today's society has its routes in these ...

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ABC Online
Peter Kirby: The first Indigenous Australian to win a Paralympic gold medal
ABC Online
Peter Kirby was born in Bega, the son of a Wiradjuri father and mother. During an era of segregation, the family lived among a community of Indigenous families in caravans around a converted school house at Kiah, before moving into the nearby town of ...

The Guardian
Reimagining The Drover's Wife: Leah Purcell weaves Indigenous Australia into classic tale
The Guardian
Purcell is getting ready to perform in her radical rewrite of the Henry Lawson short story The Drover's Wife, retooled with strong Indigenous emphasis and autobiography, while retaining a few Lawson plot points: bullock shooting and rogue swaggies ...

Independent Australia
Former PM Howard on a treaty: 'Appalled' or 'appalling'?
Independent Australia
Obviously, Howard's principle and words didn't – and still don't – apply for Australia's Indigenous peoples. We didn't and, apparently, still don't need to establish Indigenous consent or agreement to move forward together as one united nation — even ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
TV review: Howard on Menzies: Building Modern Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
People of opposing views are on hand to hose down any attempts at hagiography, and Menzies' unavoidable shortcomings – including when it came to both Indigenous Australia and ending the White Australia policy – are acknowledged. The series also ...

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The Creators Project (blog)
It's Time to Rethink How We See Indigenous Australian Art
The Creators Project (blog)
A recent exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum set out to change how we view and contextualize Australian Indigenous art—not as relics of the past, but as contemporary, internationally relevant contributions. Everywhen: The Eternal Present in ...

Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Man Stands Up To Racism With A Friendly Pot Of Tea
Huffington Post Australia
A Perth man who overheard two women making racist comments about Indigenous Australians has responded in the most perfect way possible -- by buying them a friendly pot of tea. Jarred Wall and a friend, who are both Indigenous, were having lunch at ...
'Distasteful conversation' gets perfect response from Indigenous AustralianThe New Daily
Aboriginal man's brilliant response to racismThe Advertiser
Man buys racist neighbours a pot of tea in ultimate power moveMashable

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal artefacts in Sotheby's auction prompt questions over provenance
The Sydney Morning Herald
Jones, along with National Museum of Australia senior curator Carol Cooper, is on a mission to find out exactly where shields like this came from, right down to identifying the people who made them. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones holding one of the ...

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ABC Online
Boyer Lectures: Sir Michael Marmot urges Australia to invest in early childhood to close Indigenous health gap
ABC Online
If Australia wants to close the gap between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, the traditional approach of treating disease will not do it, epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot says. Indigenous life expectancy is 10 years lower than ...

Football Australia (press release)
Fogarty aims to inspire Aboriginal talent
Football Australia (press release)
For followers of the indoor game in Australia the sight of Fogarty proudly waving the Aboriginal flag upon the conclusion of another victory has become ubiquitous, and it's something that the engaging attacker is hoping to repeat at the 2016 edition of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital
The Sydney Morning Herald
A 2016 audit of data from 2005 to 2014 found the Indigenous suicide rate in the Kimberley to be more than seven times Australia's average in 2011, with 74 suicides per 100,000 compared to 9.9 per 100,000 across Australia. Of those, 27 per cent were ...

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The Australian
QUT's Oodgeroo unit for indigenous students not discriminatory
The Australian
At the outset, QUT unapologetically stands by its longstanding and hitherto uncontroversial practice of providing a support unit and services dedicated to encourage and assist indigenous students in their education here. Most Australian universities ...

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The Conversation AU
Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
The Conversation AU
Norris claimed that our paper was about the largest numbers in Australian Aboriginal languages that could extend beyond ten, but still didn't extend past 20. He gave some examples of other Aboriginal counting systems with limits higher than those we ...

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WAtoday
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn
WAtoday
Fremantle's Australian Day fireworks event will no longer take place. Photo: Jay Cronan. The cancellation of the fireworks sparked condemnation from many quarters with the Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine ...

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SBS
Chansey Paech is Australia's first gay, Indigenous parliamentarian
SBS
Chansey Paech spent the last several few weeks driving his silver Nissan four-wheel-drive around central Australia, meeting with small communities and sleeping under the stars. “I'm a pro at changing tyres and tying stuff on the back of the car,” he ...